This dissertation addresses the question of the foreign policy views of the leading spokespeople for the Religious Right in the United States since the end of World War II. The analysis begins with the early years of the Cold War, focusing on the religious overtones that quickly…
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Often hailed as the civil rights movement of the twenty-first century, the same-sex marriage debate has swept across America. The most outspoken opposition to same-sex marriage is the Religious Right, which employs Scripture to support its argument that homosexuals are inferior …
In 2004, Mel Gibson released The Passion of the Christ , a film that focuses specifically on the events surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth Over a year before its release and well ahead of any studio publicity, the film and its director were at the center of a discu…
This thesis project explores three prominent films developed as part of the Christian independent film industry between 1970 and 2014. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s work in affect theory, I identify how certain films resonated with the U.S. Evangelical subculture during times of cultu…
This thesis examines the use of new and emerging media by the religious right during the 1970s to spread the ideology and discourse of the Satanic Panic and the anti-rock movement. While other scholars have discussed such media as Satanism survivor narratives, anti-rock texts, a…